Here’s Your Free Look At Netflix’s March Lineup

Getting productive takes a whole lot of effort and the cool weather isn’t helping. For half the country, it’s still “curl up on the couch and hibernate” weather, which makes it convenient for Netflix to serve up so much more original content in March.

Queer Eye is returning for season 3, and this time it’s based in
Kansas, which is a pretty big departure from Georgia, where previous seasons
took place. There’s also a promising-looking eight-episode French science
fiction series called Osmosis, about an app that can decode love for people — and manipulate
their memories like data.

But the weirdest original series coming to Netflix in March is probably the animated anthology Love, Death & Robots, presented by Tim Miller (Deadpool) and David Fincher (Seven, Gone Girl, The Social Network). The wild trailer for the collection feels like a psychedelic trip through all the sex and robot scenes of last summer’s blockbusters, presented in animation. It’s hard to know what to make of it, but it premieres March 15th.

Fantasy lovers are getting Immortals — a Netflix Original vampire show that could help out anyone missing Vampire Diaries or True Blood — and The Order, which explores a war between werewolves and dark magicians. And even though Netflix’s anime selection still pales compared to Crunchyroll and competing sites, it’s making some headway by adding the first three seasons of Hunter X Hunter. It’s a classic adventure anime about a boy training to be an accomplished hunter, befriending allies along the way in a world that veers from fun to extremely horrifying. If you liked Naruto, Dragon Ball Z, or One Piece,Hunter X Hunter is pretty much the same thing, in a genre that stays fresh because of imaginative world-building.

Netflix releases most of its content in full-season bingeable dumps, but some of its imported shows do get a more familiar week-by-week single-episode release treatment. That’s the planned approach for the Korean drama Romance is a Bonus Book, about an editor-in-chief falling for an unemployed copywriter. Hasan Minhaj’s news comedy show Patriot Act is getting a similar week-to-week release. Both clearly did well enough with viewers to merit second seasons.

As for what’s leaving
Netflix, the service is losing The Breakfast Club and Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End, but both titles are cheap on Amazon or YouTube. Overall,
it’s a solid, fairly exciting month for streaming on Netflix.